Clarkville restaurant and bar is expected to open at former Best House Pizza space at 43rd and Baltimore in Fall 2015.
Here’s an update on Clarkville, the bar and restaurant planned for Baltimore Avenue across from Clark Park, from co-owner Leigh Maida. The lease for the former Best House Pizzeria space at 43rd and Baltimore was signed in November, and the building owner is still working on renovation and repairs, according to Maida. The renovation work is now expected to be completed early next month, after which Maida and her partners will take possession of the space and start setting up their restaurant.
If everything goes according to plans the restaurant should be open in very early fall, says Maida.
In the meantime, Maida and her partners, Brendan Kelly and Brendan Hartranft, who also own Local 44, are busy working on the menu and getting as much of the details “buttoned up” in advance of taking over the space as possible. By the way, the name of the new restaurant is just Clarkville without “Beer” after it as was reported earlier. “We’ll have a pretty nice draft wine list at Clarkville, as well as a very steady flag-ship centric craft beer list,” Maida says.
The restaurant also inherits a giant pizza oven and dough mixer that came with the space. “Those items will be put to use immediately in the preparation of a pizza-like offerings,” Maida said in an earlier statement.
Finally, check out Clarkville’s storefront rendering below.
May 6th, 2015 at 1:35 pm
Ugh, that chick on the bottom, left, borrowed money from me and never paid it back. Look at her, all smug. I better not run into her over there.
May 6th, 2015 at 2:41 pm
She does seem to be looking over her shoulder, Christina. I think she’s avoiding you.
May 6th, 2015 at 3:10 pm
Already this place is bringing artistic renderings of nefarious people. Before you know it, they’ll be artistic rendering of parking problems and displaced local people. I demand an artistic rendering of a community meeting at once.
May 6th, 2015 at 3:39 pm
Check out the 1912 picture of the same building – seems the 2nd floor was a roofdeck to the adjecent building?
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/98/28/1d/98281d6f6cc17df5f18ce3f269f82d68.jpg
May 6th, 2015 at 3:41 pm
Nice, it looks like the storm water management was last updated when that picture was taken…
May 6th, 2015 at 6:31 pm
I thought it looks like they were putting down the trolley tracks. Great photo!
May 7th, 2015 at 12:52 pm
I cannot wait to try their world famous “pizza-like offerings”.
Winter is over and the snow still keeps piling up on the corner of 43rd and Baltimore.
October 28th, 2015 at 1:26 pm
Any update on the opening?
October 28th, 2015 at 10:47 pm
Yes, the tentative opening date is December 1, according to the owners: http://bit.ly/1L26gyh
October 28th, 2015 at 4:20 pm
WPL wrote a few weeks ago about a targeted December 1.